People

Director

Pier Luigi Parcu is part-time Professor at the European University Institute (EUI) from 2010. Prof, Parcu is currently Director of the ENTraNCE project- European Networking and Training for National Competition Enforcers, of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, and of the FSR Communications & Media at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI. He is also Chairman of a consultancy company specialized in antitrust and regulatory issues of network industries. From 2000 to 2003, he has been CEO of the Independent System Operator running the Italian Electricity Grid (GRTN). From 1991 to 2000 he was the Director of Investigation at the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) in charge of several regulated sectors. Previously, he served as Chief Economist at the Italian Security and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) and as Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). His research in the area of industrial organization and law and economics focuses on the interaction between regulation and antitrust in shaping firms' behaviour in network industries. As regards research in the media area, Prof. Parcu’s interests focus on the effects of ownership concentration and internal governance of the media enterprise on pluralism and freedom of expression. Finally, among the most recent interests of research and publication, Prof. Parcu is looking at the Internet’s effects on traditional business models and its influence on new economic developments such as the sharing economy and smart cities.

Research Staff

Elda Brogi - Scientific Coordinator. Elda Brogi’s main interests span Constitutional, European and Media law. She teaches Information and Communication Law at the University of Florence, and previously taught at the University of Macerata. Elda has worked as a Parliamentary Assistant at the European and Italian Parliaments, and as research fellow at the Universities of Florence (Media Integration and Communication Centre) and Perugia. She has participated in many European and Italian research projects covering her main topics of interest. For instance, at the University of Florence, she was the coordinator of the project "Support to the reform of Serbian Media Legislation towards EU standards and strengthening of legal and technical skills of media professionals” (CARDS) and recently she has been working in the Mediadem project at the Law Department of the EUI. She holds a degree in Law (University of Florence), a Ph.D. in Public Law and Constitutional Law (University La Sapienza, Rome) and is an Italian qualified lawyer. In 2014 and 2015 she has been a member of the Committee of experts on protection of journalism and safety of journalists (MSI-JO) at the Council of Europe. Since December 2015 she is member of the Committee of experts on media pluralism and transparency of media ownership (MSI-MED) at the Council of Europe.

Konstantina Bania specializes in Media, Telecommunications and Technology (TMT) Law and Competition Law. She has a solid and extensive academic background in these areas, which she acquired by successfully completing a PhD in Law (European University Institute), two LL.M. degrees in International and European Law (European University Institute and Free University of Brussels), an MSc in Business Science (University of Barcelona), a Bachelor of Laws (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Salamanca), and relevant coursework at Harvard Law School and Fordham Law School. Konstantina has received numerous research grants, prizes and fellowships, which were awarded by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (BR), the European Broadcasting Union (CH), the European University Institute (IT), the Competition Law Scholars Forum (UK), the Greek Scholarships Foundation, and the Institute for European Studies (BE). Over the past years, Konstantina has worked on various EU-funded projects, including MEDIADEM and the Media Profiler, and taught courses in her fields of expertise at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Bocconi University and the University of Padova. As a practitioner (called to the Bar since 2008), she has provided legal services to a range of institutions and organizations, including the European Commission (DG Competition and DG MARKT), IT qualifications providers, broadcasters, cloud service providers, and advertising agencies.

Davide Morisi is currently completing a PhD in Political Science at the European University Institute. His research focuses on the effects of media on public opinion and political behavior, employing mostly survey and experimental methods. Davide has both academic and professional expertise in the media and communication sector. Before joining CMPF, he gained a master’s degree in media policy at the London School of Economics, with a dissertation on media pluralism and the case of News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB’s. He holds also an MA and BA in communication studies from the University of Bologna. Davide has worked as a communication assistant for the Communication Directorate-General of the European Commission, as a journalist for Italian daily newspapers, and as a campaign manager for two electoral campaigns.

Iva Nenadic´s research focuses on media accountability, changes in journalistic practices and innovation in online communication. She is currently finishing her PhD studies in Communication Science at the University of Osijek in Croatia. Prior to joining the CMPF, Iva spent an academic year at Stuttgart Media University, where she was involved as a researcher in two international and interdisciplinary projects exploring influences of the digital age on media, education, economy and society. In 2014 she co-edited comprehensive publication “Common Media Pressing Issues in Six SEE Countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia)” and was a part of the team that developed empirically based Index on Clientelism in Media. She participated in the project Children of the media, promoting media literacy, and MEDIANE, joint Programme of the EU and the Council of Europe promoting diversity inclusiveness. Iva holds MA in Journalism from the University of Zagreb and has an extensive experience as a professional journalist and editor in various media outlets.

Alina Ostling holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) and a Master of Science in Business and Economics from Uppsala University (Sweden).

She has a strong professional background in democracy, new media and development. Alina’s experience includes coordinating project in the field of democratic governance at UNDP Belarus; working as evaluator for the Open Government Partnership and FP7 Expert Evaluator for the European Commission, and assessing the impact of the web in Sweden for the World Wide Web Foundation’s Index 2013. She has also lead the Swedish team in the framework of the online Voting Advice Application (VAA) the EU Profiler in the run-up for the European Parliamentary elections (2009), and a VAA for the Swedish 2010-elections for the newspaper Aftonbladet.

Web Apps & Communication Tools

Lorenzo Giuntini has been working in web design, web development and online communication field since 1999. His interests are mainly focused on digital marketing, web publishing and web advertising.

He studied at the University of Florence, where he graduated in Linguistic and Multimedia Communication. He holds a professional degree in Web Application Development from Faculty of Computer Engineering and a MA in Theories of Communication from the Faculty of Education Sciences. He started to deal with european projects during his studies within AEGEE (European Students' Forum). He joined the CMPF from its very beginning (2012) and from 2014 is taking care of the Media Pluralism Monitor online software development.

Collaborators

Matteo Cernison focuses his research on digital technologies, online activism, and digital methods of research. During his PhD he investigated the online communication sphere that characterized the 2011 Italian referendum campaign against the privatization of water, under the supervision of Donatella della Porta. He graduated in Communication at the University of Padua in 2006. Since then, he participated to a national research project regarding the online debate on Communication Rights (Universities of Trento and Padua, 2007/2008), to the ERC funded project “Mobilizing 4 Democracy” (EUI – Cosmos, Centre on Social Movement Studies – 2012/14), and to a research on framing in international campaigns (LUISS University, 2014). In this last research, he experimented methods of data analysis through Python, and new ways of visualising data. He is an expert in Social Network Analysis, Digital Methods (in particular digital ethnography), and computer programming for social science. Research interests:Online communication, digital methods, data analysis through Python, visualisations

Virginia Silvestri's field of research is Industrial Organisation, with particular focus on competition and regulation issues in Telecommunications and Media markets. Virginia studied Economics at Tor Vergata University in Rome, where she graduated in 2007. She then continued her studies at PhD level at IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies and spent the academic year 2009-2010 as a visiting research student at University College London. She obtained her PhD in 2012, with a dissertation on investment and network regulation in broadband markets. She has several work experiences in the field of telecom regulation and antitrust consultancy. Virginia joined the Florence School of Regulation in November 2011.Virginia holds a PhD in Economics from IMT Lucca and a Degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Tor Vergata University in Rome.

Maria Luisa Stasi joined the Florence School of Regulation in May 2013. Her research interests cover a wide range of European law issues, with particular expertise in competition law and electronic communications law. From 2008, she worked as an associate lawyer in the competition law department of Bonelli Erede Pappalardo law firm, Milan. In 2012, she joined the Academy of European Law (ERA) as a course director, where she organised training, seminars and conferences in competition, State aid, public procurement and electronic communications law. She is the author of several publications in various fields of law. Maria Luisa holds a LLM in European Legal Studies (College of Europe, Bruges) and a Master's degree in International Relations and Diplomatic Studies (Lumsa University, Rome). She graduated in law (J.D) with honours from the University of Perugia in 2004. She is member of the Italian Bar Association since 2008.

Past Research Associates

Lisa Ginsborg holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. She has been a Teaching Fellow at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) in Venice, a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at New York University (NYU) School of Law, and a Visiting Researcher at the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney. Before starting her doctoral studies, she worked for three years in the legal department of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International and for one year in the NGO Liaison Office of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR).She holds an LL.M in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute (EUI) and an M.Sc. in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research interests include international human rights law, international organizations and counter-terrorism.

Paula Gori ‘s main interests cover European and International law. She joined the Florence School of Regulation at the EUI in 2010 and from 2012 is the Coordinator of the area Communications and Media. She also joined the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom from its establishment. Prior to joining the team, she gained extensive experience at the European Parliament in Brussels. Paula also collaborates with the UNESCO Centre of Florence and has attained the title of Civil and Commercial Mediator, in particular for for international disputes.

She holds an MA in International Relations (University of Bologna), and an MA in International Law and BA in Law (University of Florence). She also completed the “Double Maîtrise franco-italienne en droit” and obtained a Maîtrise en Droit (Sorbonne University).

Andrea Calderaro is a Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University. His research centres on Internet and International Politics, with a particular focus on Internet Governance, Cybersecurity, telecom policy development, Internet and Human Rights, and the role of the EU in the global internet policy debate. He is also Fellow at the Internet Policy Observatory at the Annenberg School for Communication / UPenn and at the Centre for Internet & Human Rights (CIHR) at European University Viadrina.He serves as Editor of the “Digital Technologies and Global Politics” Book Series at Rowman&Littlefield, as Chair of the ECPR Internet & Politics standing group, and a member of the Global Internet Policy Observatory’s Advisory Group/European Commission. Previously, he has been Lecturer at the University La Sapienza of Rome in “New Technologies and International Relations”, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Internet and Society at Humboldt University, Research Associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom/European University Institute, Visiting Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, and directed the “ICTs for the Global Governance of Peace and Security” Project at the University of Oslo. He hols his PhD and M.Phil in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute

Alina Dobreva after working for three years at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom at the EUI, Dr Alina Dobreva joined the European Parliamentary Research Service at the European Parliament as a Policy Analyst. Her research interests focus in the areas of political communications, relations between media and political players, media economy and democratisation, public opinion and elections. She has extensive research experience ranging from academic and NGO research projects to partisan and market research, including plenty of international comparative studies, e.g. Media Pluralism Monitor, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, British Academy funded “Political Communications in New Democracies. Government-Media Relations in Transition”. Alina also had been teaching at the University of Leeds and had been involved in various electoral campaigns planning and execution. At the CMPF, Alina co-authored the report “Freedom of Media in the Western Balkans” and had key contribution to the first and partially the second pilot stages of the Media Pluralism Monitor (methodology and social-political indicators). She holds a PhD in Political Communications from the University of Leeds, UK and MA degrees in Political Science (Central European University, Budapest) and Psychology and a BA in Public Relation (Sofia University, Bulgaria).

Giovanni Gangemi is a media expert with a ten years’ experience in the international media industries. He has worked since 2003 for the most important media consulting institutes such as e-Media and IsICult, of which he became associate director in 2006. He’s MD of the Italian office of Headway International, a Paris based media consulting company, and Director of the Communication Area of I-Com, Istituto per la Competitività. His works focused on markets and players business and strategies, content and developments, mostly based on international comparative approaches.

Giovanni graduated in Communications from La Sapienza University of Rome, and has a Master degree in Cinema and Televisions Financing. He has been assistant professor of Media Strategies within the Luiss-Guido Carli University of Rome and wrote several essays on TV and media.

Maja Šimunjak’s research focuses on the media, journalism and political communication trends and practices, particularly in authoritarian and transitional societies. She holds a PhD in Political Communication from the University of East Anglia and an MA in Journalism from the University of Zagreb. Research projects she participated in over the last decade range from analyses of media reporting and journalistic cultures, to analyses of news management practices and hidden advertising. Most recently she was involved in the international research projects Varieties of Democracy and European Elections 2014, in which she participated as a country expert analysing media and news management practices in Croatia. Maja’s publications include ‘Media portrayals: from leadership cults to celebrity politicians’ (Routledge, forthcoming), ‘The first time for everything: Political advertising in a new member state’ (Palgrave, forthcoming), ‘The private life as part of Croatian politicians' communication strategies: The 2009-2010 presidential elections’ (Media Studies, 2012), and ‘Americanization Without Trivialization: Analysis of Newspaper Reporting about Vesna Pusić's 2009 Presidential Campaign’ (Journal for General Social Issues, 2012). Before joining CMFP, Maja taught a range of modules at the University of East Anglia, including Politics and Mass Media, Studying Media, Media and Society, Media Society and Power, and Media Regulation. Previously, she worked as an editor at a Croatian national television station Sports television. She was also a night desk editor at a Croatian national daily newspapers Jutarnji list, a radio anchorman at a local radio station, and she wrote feature articles for women’s magazine and an online news portal.

Chair

Pier Luigi Parcu is Professor part–time at the European University Institute and, from 2009, Director of the Communications and Media Area at the Florence School of Regulation/EUI. He is from 2004 the Chairman of a consultancy company specialized in antitrust and regulatory issues of network industries.

Scientific Committee

Stefano Bartolini is Peter Mair Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute from 2006 to 2013 he was Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He has been associate professor at the University of Florence (1985), full professor at the University of Trieste (1990), the University of Geneva (1991), the European University Institute (1994) and the University of Bologna (2004). He is a member of the editorial board of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, and a member of the scientific board of West European Politics, Swiss Review of Political Science, Acta Politica, Electoral Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Comparative Political Studies. He has been awarded the best book prize of the European Politics section of the APSA (2002), the Gregory Luebbert APSA Prize in Comparative Politics (2001), and the UNESCO Stein Rokkan prize for the Social Sciences (1990). His present academic interests are the relationships between the process of European integration and the key features of the European nation-state experience.

Rachael Craufurd Smith is a Reader at the University of Edinburgh specialising in media and European Union law. She studied at Hertford College, Oxford, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before completing her doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence on comparative media law. Rachael previously worked as a lawyer in private practice, then at the BBC, advising on the impact of EU law on the corporation, and as an academic at the University of Oxford (Trinity, Corpus Christi and St. John’s Colleges). She has written widely on media freedom and regulation and has argued for the continuing importance of co-ordinated intervention at domestic and EU levels to protect and promote media plurality. She recently published, together with E. Barendt, J. Bosland and L. Hitchens, Media Law: Text Cases and Materials (Pearson, 2014). She is a co-founding editor of the Journal of Media Law (Hart), worked closely with the Open Society Foundation on their major study on media ownership transparency, and led the Edinburgh team on the FP7 EU-funded Mediadem project examining freedom and independence of the press in fourteen European countries.

Gillian Doyle is Professor of Media Economics and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) at the University of Glasgow where she directs Glasgow’s MSc in Media Management. She is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Media and Communication (IMK), University of Oslo. Gillian is currently Principal Investigator (PI) on ‘Multi-platform Media and the Digital Challenge’ funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) and PI on a major study of the history of the UK Film Council funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC). She has carried out and supervised studies on media economics and media policy for the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the OECD and her research in these areas has been translated and published in several languages. Gillian is former President of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI).

Beata Klimkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Beata Klimkiewicz's research interests include media pluralism and diversity; media policy in Europe; media reform in Central Europe; media system structures and regulatory models; media representations of minorities and minority media. She received her PhD from the Institute of Political Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in 2000. She has studied or held fellowships at the University of Oxford; Columbia University; the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute; and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has acted as an advisor to the European Commission, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and has co-operated with the Open Society Institute in Budapest, the Media Diversity Institute in London and the Peace Institute in Ljubljana.

Frank La Rue is the Executive Director of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Europe and former UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion and protection of the right to the freedom of opinion and expression (2008-14). He is widely respected as one of the world’s foremost human rights advocates, with particular expertise in political analysis; democratic development; and conflict management, negotiation, and resolution.A lawyer by training, Mr. La Rue is also a journalist, and has served in the Cabinet of the Government in his native Guatemala as Presidential Secretary for Human Rights, and has frequently taught and written about human rights.

Paolo Mancini is Professor at Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Perugia. His major publications include "Politics, Media and Modern Democracy" with David Swanson (New York, Praeger, 1996), “Sociologie della comunicazione (with Alberto Abruzzese) (Laterza, 2008); “Elogio della lottizzazione” (Laterza, 2009). In 2004 with Dan Hallin Mancini published “Comparing Media Systems. Three Models of Media and Politics” (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press). This book won the 2005 Goldsmith Book Award from Harvard University, the 2005 Diamond Anniversary Book Award of the National Communication Association and the 2006 outstanding Book Award of the International Communication Association. Mancini’s last book in English is “Between Commodification and Life Style Politics. Does Silvio Berlusconi provide a New Model of Politics for the Twenty-First Century?” (Oxford, The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2011).

Brankica Petkovic is head of the Center for Media Policy at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana and Editor-in-Chief of the Media Watch book series and Media Watch journal. Her work at the Peace Institute is focused on monitoring, policy research, advocacy, training/education and publishing activities in the field of media accountability (professional standards), access of minority groups and citizens to the media (communication rights of citizens and minority groups), media content diversity and media ownership pluralism. She is author of number of articles and reports and co-author of books on the above mentioned topics. She has been a project leader of number of national and regional research and advocacy projects, including “Media ownership and its impact on media independence and pluralism in South East European and new EU member countries” (2003/04).

Robert G. Picard is one of the world's leading academic experts on media economics and management and government communications policies. He is North American Advisor for the Reuters Institute in the Department of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford, a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, Yale University. He was formerly Director of Research at the Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, and a research fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is also on the faculties of the University of Canberra, Australia, the Institute of Media and Entertainment, IESE Business School in New York, the Center for Media Management and Economics at Tsinghua University in China, and the University of Tampere, Finland. He is the author and editor of 30 books including Handbook on the Economics of the Media, Media Clusters: Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities (Edward Elgar Publishing), The Economics and Financing of Media Companies (Fordham University Press), Media Product Portfolios: Issues in Managing Multiple Products and Services (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers), Media Firms: Structures, Operations and Performance (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers), The Internet and the Mass Media (Sage), The Newspaper Publishing Industry (Allyn & Bacon), Media Economics: Concepts and Issues (Sage), Press Concentration and Monopoly: New Perspectives on Newspaper Ownership and Operation (Ablex), and Joint Operating Agreements: The Newspaper Preservation Act and Its Application (Ablex). He has written hundreds of articles on media issues for scholarly journals and industry publications. Picard has been the editor of the Journal of Media Business Studies and The Journal of Media Economics. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous other journals.

Michele Polo is full Professor at the Bocconi University of Milan, Department of Economics, where he teaches Competition Policy, Regulation and Liberalization, Industrial Organization and Industrial Economics. His main research interests focus on industrial economics, antitrust and political economics. He is also Editor of the il Giornale degli Economisti and Annali di Economia. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Sassari. He publishes extensively on competition issues. He obtained a degree in Economics and Commerce from Bocconi University, a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University. Relevant publications: Concentration and Public Policy in the Broadcasting Industry (with M.Motta), Economic Policy, n.25 pp.295-334. 1997. Regulation for Pluralism in the Media Markets", in P.Seabright J. von Hagen (eds.) Regulation of Media Markets, Cambridge U.P. 2007

Damian Tambini is Research Director and Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications of the LSE, and head of the MSC in Communication Governance. Damian is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research and at the Oxford Internet Institute. He serves on the Editorial Commission for the Open Society Foundation’s Mapping Digital Media Project and the UK Board of Reporters Without Borders. Between 2002 and 2006 he directed Oxford Universtity’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy. Damian has authored numerous articles and books on media law and policy and political communication.

Anna Triandafyllidou is, since October 2012, the Director of the Global Governance Programme Research Strand on “Cultural Pluralism”. Before joining the Programme (2010-2012), she was part time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Anna was senior fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens from 2004 to 2012, where she headed a strong migration research team. She has also been a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002. Professor Triandafyllidou received her Ph.D. from the EUI in 1995 and held teaching and research positions at the University of Surrey (1994-95), the London School of Economics (1995-97), the CNR in Rome (1997-99), and the EUI (1999-2004). She was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at New York University in 2011, and a Colston Fellow at the University of Bristol (2001-2002). She is currently on long-term leave from the Democritus University of Thrace, in Greece, where she was Assistant Professor between 2007 and 2010. Her main areas of research and teaching are cultural diversity, migration, and nationalism from a European and international perspective. For the last 10 years, she has received funding and co-ordinated a number of international research projects in these research areas. Her publications include more than 100 articles in refereed journals and chapters in collective volumes, five authored books and more than ten edited and co-edited volumes.

Peggy Valcke is full time Research Professor at K.U.Leuven where she teaches media law. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Florence School of Regulation and current director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & ICT (ICRI). Peggy Valcke obtained her PhD in Law in 2003 with a dissertation on "Pluralism in a digital interactive media environment: Analysis of sector specific regulation and competition law". She has been involved in various research projects in the area of media and communications law, (user-generated content, mobile television, e-publishing and online journalism, public service broadcasting and state aid, co- and self-regulation in the media, privacy in electronic communications and social networks). She edits the International Encyclopaedia of Media Law and is a member of the editorial board of following journals: The Journal of Media Law (Hart Publishing), Computer, Law and Security Review (Elsevier). She also participated in OfcomWatch (weblog about communications policy and regulation in the UK and Europe).

Dirk Voorhoof obtained Master degrees in Law (1979) and Communication Sciences (1980) and a PhD in Law in 1990, Ghent University. He was a lawyer at the Brussels Bar from 1990-1992 and member of the Federal Commission for Access to Administrative Documents from 1994-2005. He is a member of the Flemish Regulator for the Media (since 2006) and was a member of the Flemish Media Council (2005-2012). He lectured at Antwerp University (1991-1993), Brussels University KUB (1993-1998) and he is teaching Media Law at Copenhagen University since 2004. He is a professor at Ghent University since 1992, with courses in Media Law, Copyright Law, Journalism & Ethics and European Media Law, both in the Law Faculty and in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Communication Studies. From 2002-2007 he lectured at the University of Oxford, MLAP (Media Law Advocates Programme). He also recently lectured in Summer School Programmes on Human Rights, Journalism and Freedom of Expression at Europa Universität (Frankfurt/Oder, Viadrina) and European University Institute (Florence, EUI). He is a member of the research groups Center for Journalism Studies (CJS), Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Human Rights Centre (HRC), Law Faculty at Ghent University and he is supervisor of a research project at Ghent University on freedom of expression and chilling effect (2011-2014). He regularly reports on developments regarding freedom of expression, media and journalism in Iris, legal newsletter of the European Audiovisual Observatory (Strasbourg), Auteurs & Media (Larcier, Brussel) and Mediaforum (VMC/IVIR, Amsterdam).

2014

Sally Young is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, and Associate Professor and Reader in Political Science at the University of Melbourne. Her ARC fellowship provides four years of funding for Sally to research press power and media policy-making. She has published widely in the areas of Australian politics, Australian media, political communication and journalism studies including three books and over forty journal articles and conference papers. Her most recent book is How Australia Decides: Election Reporting and the Media (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Sally is also a newspaper columnist who writes a monthly column on Australian politics and media for the Age newspaper.

2013

Inger Høedt-Rasmussen is a lawyer with a supplementary university degree in pedagogic skills. Facilitating learning with new methods such as suggestopedia and accelerated learning. CEO at the Association of Computer Professionals. From 2001- 2005 Director R&D, The Danish Bar and Law Society working with education, Mediation, protection of human rights.. Chairman of the Danish Media council from 1996-2001. Lecturing rhetoric for moot court students at Copenhagen University. Founding member of Legal Human Academy.Contact via IMLA Network

Jedrzej Skrzypczak - legal advisor, the Head of the Department of Journalism and Press Systems, Political Sciences and Journalism Faculty, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poznan. From September to October 2012 visiting professor at the CMPF European University Institute, thanks to the UNIKAT project, supported by European Union funds. Particularly interested in such issues as: freedom of speech, digital media law, European media. His book "Media policy of Radio Broadcasting and Television in the times of digital conversion", received the Dr P. Stepka rize, a prestigious award granted by the Polish National Broadcasting Council and the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, University of Warsaw, as the best book in the electronic media domain for 2011. He has made several expertises for the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Council of Radio and Television in Poland.

Dirk Voorhoof obtained Master degrees in Law (1979) and Communication Sciences (1980) and a PhD in Law in 1990, Ghent University. He was a lawyer at the Brussels Bar from 1990-1992 and member of the Federal Commission for Access to Administrative Documents from 1994-2005. He is a member of the Flemish Regulator for the Media (since 2006) and was a member of the Flemish Media Council (2005-2012). He lectured at Antwerp University (1991-1993), Brussels University KUB (1993-1998) and he is teaching Media Law at Copenhagen University since 2004. He is a professor at Ghent University since 1992, with courses in Media Law, Copyright Law, Journalism & Ethics and European Media Law, both in the Law Faculty and in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Communication Studies. From 2002-2007 he lectured at the University of Oxford, MLAP (Media Law Advocates Programme). He also recently lectured in Summer School Programmes on Human Rights, Journalism and Freedom of Expression at Europa Universität (Frankfurt/Oder, Viadrina) and European University Institute (Florence, EUI). He is a member of the research groups Center for Journalism Studies (CJS), Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Human Rights Centre (HRC), Law Faculty at Ghent University and he is supervisor of a research project at Ghent University on freedom of expression and chilling effect (2011-2014). He regularly reports on developments regarding freedom of expression, media and journalism in Iris, legal newsletter of the European Audiovisual Observatory (Strasbourg), Auteurs & Media (Larcier, Brussel) and Mediaforum (VMC/IVIR, Amsterdam).

Executive CMPF Manager

Claudio Mazzetti Claudio Mazzetti holds a Laurea in History from the University of Florence and a MA in International Politics from University of Paris XI. He worked for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kosovo and for the European Parliament in Luxembourg. From 2004 to 2009 he worked in Brussels for one of the European leading consultancy firm, AESA. He was Project Manager, then Coordinator of the FWCs’ Social Department and finally he acted as Head of the Social Department.

Administrative Assistant

Alessandra Caldini She worked in 2003 in the European UNICEF Research Centre as assistant in charge of organizing events. Since 2008 she worked for a cultural and educational review, Il Nuovo Rinascimento as editor and translator. Moreover, in 2011 she did one of the most interesting work in her life. She was editor and translator for all the panels of Senzatomica, an exhibition for nuclear abolition, held in Florence in Spring 2011. As part of a multinational team, Alessandra was responsible of revising all the materials concerning the exhibition, working in close contact with the Scientific Committee. She joined the Florence School of Regulation in March 2012.She holds a degree in Foreign and Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Florence. She speaks Italian, English and German